Rain Dance - Annual Fiesta - Zia Pueblo
Velino Shije Herrera (Ma-Pe-Wi), Zia Pueblo / American, 1902 - 1973, Zia Pueblo (Tsia), Southwest
about 1927
Opaque watercolor on tan wove (Canson & Montgolfier) paper mounted on cardboard
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 24 11/16 in. (48 × 62.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.80
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Classification
Native American
Watercolor
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Inscription
Signed, lower right: MA-PE-WI; Watermark: impressed along lower edge of paper: CANSON MI-TIENTES VIDALON ANN..
Course History
WRIT 7 , Religion and Literature: Re-visioning the Natural, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2015
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
The Arts of Native America: Studio Painting, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 3, 1979.
Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 27, November 18, 2000-September 6, 2001.
Native American Studio School Watercolors, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October--December, 2010.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Images of the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MALS 190, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), July 15 - August 28, 1994.
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Taylor Hall, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, no. 72, February 1941.
Publication History
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1941, no. 73.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 25, 154, 157, 265, ill. p. 155, no. 47.
Provenance
The artist; to the Spanish and Indian Trading Post, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1927; sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), March 28, 1927; given to present collection, 1935.
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